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DYE F THINGS NEW pre or Titit Any Worn, ill ment or Draper/, Diamond DyB a little (>ri, instant fien short Jngers. bottle ot Sufficient to corn, or tl*e foot Irritation. tlW w ijbpginent AM ED &GAIN fbby Gar M Each 15-ocnt package o t'cs" contains directions! it any woman can dye d. worn, faded thing n^\f le has never dyed beftf* ly color at drug store, ent. Heaven favors good Intentions. ! v?ur eyes srnart or feel ? . ? Baisanj applied on going, leve then, by morning. Ad^. Iflle folks have the .most [Sure Re for IN DIG I V~cO. BC; J< ng Jk - $0 Diamond simple tint any even if Choose Advertise ed, Roman } bed, will Ibor, Hot :KHS ,-ANS rater telief -uticuraS Is Pure and S .Weal for Chi . a?*otyl? ""-"SjfitHB v ; wf % ? * V- ? * ' CHAPTER XfV? Contfniiid. f C?~ '* ? *14? ?(?/,' . > Their mission finished, that evening JacJc and Solomon v called At General i Washington's headquarters. . "General, Doctor ^rankll^- tQld ns 9 turn over the hosses and wagons to on,* said Solomon. "He didn't tell ns what to do with ourselves 'cause 'twasn't nec'sary an' he knew h* We yant to enlist.'* . . ] "For what term?" ! "Till the British are licked." "You are the kind of men I need/' said Washington. "I shall put you on scout duty. Mr. Irons will go into my regiment of sharpshooters with the 'rank of captain. You have told me of his training in Philadelphia." | So the two friends were enlisted and began service in the army of ?Washington. | A letter from Jack to hl^ mother dated July 25, 1775, Is fall?of the camp *olor : i "General Charles Lee Is In command of my regiment," be writes. "He Is a rough, slovenly old dog of a man who seems to bark at ifs on the training ground. He has two or three hunting dogs that live with him In his tent 4ind also -a rare gift of profanity which is with him everywhere ? save at head quartera [ "Today I saw these notices posted in eamp : ? j " 'Punctual attendance on divine uervlce is requirecHof all nor on actual duty.' "'No burning of the pope allowed.' " 'Fifteen stripes for denying duty.' ; " Ten for getting drunk.' j " Thirty-nine for stealing and de sertion.' j "Rogues are put In terror, lazy men are energized. The% quarters are kept, clean, the food Is well cooked and in plentiful supply, but the British over in town are said to pe getting hungry." | Early in August a London letter was forwarded to Jack from Philadel* |?hia. He was filled with new hope as he read these lines : i "Dearest Jack:*. I am sailing for Boston on one of^the next troop ships to join my father. , So when the war ends ? God grant it may be soon ? you Will not have far to go to find me, perhaps by Christmas time we may be together. Let us both pray for ' that. Meanwhile, I shall be happier for being nearer you ahd for doing what I can to heal the wounds made by this wretched war. I am going to be a nurse in a hospital. Ypu see the truth Is that since I met y{ou* I like all men better, and I shall love to be trying to relieve their sufferings. . . It Was a long letter but abote Is as much of It as can claim adm&Sion to these ?pages.'7*- * s! "Who but she could write such a letter?" Jsck asked himself, and then he held It to. his lips a moment. It thrilled him to think that even then she was probably In Boston. , In the tent where he and Solomon lived when they were both In camp, he found the scout The night before Solomon had slept out. Now he had built -a small fire In front of the tent and lain down on a blanket, having delivered^ his re port at headquarters. "Margaret is in Boston," said Jack as soon as he entered, and then stand ing in the firelight read the tetter to his friend, ^ "Thar is a real, genewlne, likely gal," said the scout. "I wish there were some *way of getting to her,": the young man re marked. "Might as well think o' goll?' to h ? 1 hn' back ag'in," said Solomon.0 "Since junker Hill the British are \fte a lot 0' hornets. I run onto one of] 'em to day. He fired at me an* didn't hit a thing but the air an' run like a scared rabbit. Could 'a', killed him ,easy but I kind o' enjoyed seein' him rtm. He were like chain lightnin' on a greased pole ? you hear to me." "If the general will let me, I'm go ing to try spy duty and see If I can get Into town and out again," he pro posed. ' . ^ } 2 ' "You keep out o' that business," said Solomon. 'They's too many that know ye over in town. * The two Clarkes an' their friends an' Colonel Hare an' his friends, an' Cap. Preston, an' a hull passle. They know all ?bout ye. If you got snapped, they'd stan' ye ag'in' a wall an' put ye out o' the way quick. It would be pie for the Clarkes, an' the ol\ man Hare wouldn't spill no tears over .it. Cap. Preston couldn't save ye, that's sartin. No, sir, I won't 'low it. They's plenty o' old cusses fer such work." For a time Jack abandoned the Idea, but later, when Solomon failed to re turn from a scouting tour and a re port reached camp that he was cap tured, the young man began to think bt that rather, romantic plan again. He had grown a full beard ;^<his skin was tanned; his clothes wej;e worn and torn and faded. His fa$er, who had visited the camp bringing a sup ply of clothes for his son, had failed, at first, to recognize him. December had arrived. The- general was having his first great trial in keeping an army about him. Terms -Of enlistment faere' expiring. Cold 'weather had come. The camp was un comfortable. Regiments of t^e home sick lads of New England were leav ing or preparing to leave. Jack and a number of joung ministers in the serv ice organized a campaign of ' persua sioa and many were prevailed upon to rcr anlltt . But hundreds -of boys were hurrying homeward on the frozen roads, v t ? . * i Qoe Cay Jack was sent for. Be and a/ -fchw 4bad ~ friends ; By IRVING BACHELLER Copyright by Irving BadwOar his company had captured a number of men in a skirmish. "Captala, you have done well," said the general. "I want to- make a scout of you. In our present circumstances it's about the . most important, danger ous and difficult work there is to be done here, especially the work which Solomon ? Binkus undertook to do. There is no other In whom I should have so much confidence. Major Bart lett knows the part of the line which Colonel Binkus traversed. He will be going out that way tomorrow. I should like you, sir, to go with ? him. After one trfp I shall be greatly pleased if you are capable of doing the work alone." Orders were delivered and Jack re ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mid dle-aged farmer-soldier^ who had been on scout .duty since July. They left camp together next morning an hour before reveille. They had an unevent ful day, mostly in wooded flats and ridges, and from the latter fboking across with a spy-glass into Bruteland, as they caiied the country held by the British, and seeing only, now and then, an enemy picket or distant camps. About midday they sat down in a thicket together for a bite to eat and a whispered conference. "Binkus, as you know, had his own way of scouting," said the major. "He was an Indian fighter. He liked to get inside the enemy lines and lie close an' watch 'em an' mebbe hear what they were talking about. Now an' then he would surprise a British sentinel and disarm him an' bring him Into camp." Jack wondered that his friend had never spoken of the capture of prison ers. ? "He' was a modest man," said the young scout. "He didn't want the British to know where Solomon Binkus was at work, and I guess he was wise," said the major. JU advise against taking the chances tn^t he took. It ain't neces sary. You would be caught much sooner than he was." ? That day Bartlett took Jack#over Solomon's trail and gave him the lay of the land and much good advice. A young man of .Jack's spirit, however, Is apt to have k degree of enterprise and self-confidence not easily con trolled by advice. He had been travel ing alone for three days when he felt the need of more exciting action. That night he crossed the Charles river on the ice In a snowstorm and captured a sentinel and brought him back to camp. Soon after that the daring spirit of the youth led him Into a great adven ture. It was on the night of January fifth that Jack penetrated the British lines in a snowstorm and got close to an outpost in a strip of forest. There a camp fire was burning. He came close. His garments had been whitened by the storm. The air was thick witW snow, his feet were muffled in a foot of it. He sat by a stump scarcely twenty feet from the fire, seeing those In Its light, but quite invisible. There he could distinctly hear the talk of the Britishers. It related to a proposed evacuation of the city by Howe. "I'm weary of starving to death In this God-forsaken place," said one of them. "You can't keep an army with out meat or vegetables. I've eaten fish till* I'm getting scales on me." "Colonel RIfflngton says that the army will leave here within a fort night," another observed. It was important Information which, had come to the ear of the young scout. The talk was that of . well-bred Eng lishmen who were probably officers. "We ought not to speak of those matters aloud," one of them remarked. "Some d ? d Yankee may be listening like the one we captured." "He was Amherst's old scout," said another. "He swore a blue streak when we shoved him into Jail. They don't like to be treated like rebels. They want to be prisoners of war." A young man came along with his rifle on his shoulder. "Hello, Bill!" said one of the men. "Going out on post?" 1 am, God help me," the youth an swered. It's what Td call a h ? 1 of a night." ? The sentinel p*?Md close by Jack on his way to his pelt, The latter crept k? ? ? away and followed, gradually closing In upon his quarry. When they were well away from the fire, Jack came close and called, "Bill !w \ The' sentinel stopped and faced about. ? ? "You've forgotten something,* said Jack, 4n a genial tone. - "W4^| U it?" "Your caution," Jack answered, #Ith his pistol against the breast of his en emy. "I shall have to kill you if you call or* fall to obey me. Give me the rifle and go on ahead. When I say gee go to the right, haw to the left." ? So the capture was made, and on the way out Jack picked up the sentinel who stood waiting to be relieved and took both men into camp. From documents on the person of one of these young Britishers it ap peared that General Clarke was in command of a brigade behind the lines which Jack had been watching and robbing. When Jack delivered his report the chief called him a brave lad and said: "It is valuable information you have brought to me. Do not speak oMt. Let me warn you, captain, that from now on they will try to trap you. Perhaps, even, .you may look for daring enter prises on that p&rt of their line." The general was right The young scout ran into a most daring and suc cessful British enterprise i>n the twen tieth of January. > The snow had been swept away in a warm rain and the ground had frozen*bare, or it would not have been possible. Jack had got to a strip of woods in a lonely bit of country near the British lines and was climbing a tail tree to take observa tions when he saw a movement on the ground beneath him. He stopped and quickly discovered that the tree was surrounded by British soldiers. One of them, who stood with a raised rifle, called to him: "Iron^, I will trouble you to drop your plstQls and come down at once."' Jack saw that he had run Into an ambush. . He dropped his pistols and came down. He had disregarded the warning o^ the general. He should fyave been looking out for an ambush. A squad of five men stood about him with rifles In hand. Among thejn was Lionel Clarke his right sleeve empty. "We'Ye got yo'u at last ? you d ? d rebel I" said Clarke. "I suppose you need some one to swear at," Jack answered. "And to shoot at," Clarke suggested. "I thought that you would not care for another match with me," the young scout remarked as they began to move away. v "Hereafter you will be treated like a rebel and not like a gentleman," Clarke answered. . "What do you mean?" "I mean that you will be standing, blindfolded against a wall." "That kind of a threat doesn't scare me," Jack answered, "We have to<7 many of your men in our hands." CHAPTER XV ' In Boston Jail. Jack was marched under guard into the streets of Boston. Church bells were ringing. It was Sunday morning. Young Clarke came with the guard beyond the city limits. They had seemed to be very careless in the control of their prisoner,. They gave him every chance to make a break for liberty. Jack yas not fooled. "I see that you want to j?et rid of me," said Jack to the young officer. "You'd like to have me run a race with your bullets. That Is base In gratitude. I was careful of you when we met and you do not seem to know it" "I know how well you can shoot," Clarke answered. "But you do not know how well I cdn shoot" "And when I learn, *1 want to have a fair chance for my life!" Beyond the city limits young Clarke, who was then a captain, left them, and Jack proceeded with the others. The streets were quiet ? indeed al most deserted. There were no chil dren playing on the common. A crowd was coming out of one of the churches. In the midst of it the prisoner saw Preston and Lady Hare. They were so near that tie could have* touched them with his hand as he passed. They did not see hln^ He noted the name of the church and its minister. In a few minutes he was delivered at the Jail? a noisome, ill-smelling, badly ventilated place. The yard was an opening walled in by the main structure and its two wings and a wooden fence some fif teen feet high. There was a ragged, dirty rabble of "rebel" prisoners, among whom was Solomon Binkus, all out for an airing. The old scout had lost flesh and color. He held Jack's hand and stood for a moment without speaking. (TO BE CONTINUED.) His Lesson Went Wrong The teacher was trying to impress on the children how important had been the discovery of the law of grav itation. r "Sir Isaac Newton was sitting on the ground looking at fhq tree. An apple fell on his head, and frdm that he discovered gravitation. Just think, children*K she added, "isn't that won* derful?7 The inevitable small boy replied: -Yes, miss, an' If he had been sittin' la school lookin' at . his books be wouldn't never have discovered notb* ' i HOUSEWORK NOT DRUDKBY For Women In Gcjod Health Read How Lydia E. 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